I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

The realization that I came to is that each citizen for himself or herself understands the economics, which is, "I better make more than I spend and I better put something aside for a rainy day, and I want to get a good idea about what to do with the surplus so that perhaps it can grow while I'm sleeping." And that that's capitalism. Everybody practices it, but half of the country - those on the left - deny that it's true.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.